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"Have no friends not equal to yourself."

Confucius
(09/28/0555 – ?/?/0479 BC)
Chinese philosopher Confucius
"Oh, to be seventy again!"

Georges Clemenceau
(09/28/1841 – 11/24/1929)
French PM Georges Clemenceau
"It does make a difference what you call things."

Kate Douglas Wiggin
(09/28/1856 – 08/24/1923)
US writer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), educator Kate Douglas Wiggin
"Who can refute a sneer?"

William S. Paley
(09/28/1901 – 10/26/1990)
US radio, TV magnate (founded CBS) William S. Paley
"If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers."

Ed Sullivan
(09/28/1902 – 10/13/1974)
US TV host Ed Sullivan
"Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed if necessary."

Al Capp
(09/28/1909 – 11/05/1979)
US cartoonist (Li'l Abner) Alfred Gerald Caplin
"People sometimes divide others into those you laugh at and those you laugh with. The young Auden was someone you could laugh-at-with."

Sir Stephen H. Spender
(09/28/1909 – 07/16/1995)
English writer
"They come for you in the morning in a limousine; they take you to the studio; they stick a pretty girl in your arms... They call that a profession? Come on!"

Marcello Mastroianni
(09/28/1924 – 12/19/1996)
Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni
"I wish I had invented sex. Sex is number one." Brigitte Bardot
(09/28/1934 – )
French actor (was married to Roger Vadim) Brigitte Bardot
"I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth." Janeane Garofalo
(09/28/1964 – )
US comic, actor (SNL) Janeane Garofalo
"There's a side of my personality that goes completely against the East Coast educated person and wants to be a pin-up girl in garages across America...there's a side that wants to wear the pink angora bikini!"

Mira Sorvino
(09/28/1967 – )
US actor Mira Sorvino
"There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it."

Naomi Watts
(09/28/1968 – )
English-Australian actor Naomi Watts
"Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick."

Gwyneth Paltrow
(09/28/1972 – )
US actor (daughter of Blythe Danner and Bruce Paltrow) Gwyneth_Paltrow
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